In 2003 Penny Ur gave a speech about how our students need to learn World Standard English, an emerging dialect different from British English and American English (though more different from British English).
Since this variety is not clearly defined (I don't know of any grammars that describe WSE as there are for standard American English and what not), it seems to be up to EFL teachers, and certainly learners too, to define what is the new world standard.
Posted by James Trotta at March 21, 2004 3:05 PMESL blog is one of many Blogs for learning English & teaching English. Translation services information.